Lukes on Radio Liberty: Kissinger in Moscow
Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, discussed Henry Kissinger’s February trip to Moscow in a recent interview.
Lukes was quoted in a February 19, 2016 interview on Radio Liberty entitled “Lunch With Putin: Take a Long Spoon.”
From the translated segment:
Kissinger is very fond of all sorts of secret missions and visits. He practiced them back in the 1970s, when he was head of the American diplomacy. That’s how he was preparing a sensational President Nixon’s visit to Beijing last.
Then pensioner Kissinger in the Kremlin showed up without the knowledge of the State Department and the US Embassy in Moscow. He offered to Mikhail Gorbachev a kind of an agreement, under which the US would recognize the “legitimate interests” of the USSR in Eastern Europe and would not interfere in the affairs thence, and in exchange, the Kremlin has pledged not to use force in the region.
You can listen to the entire segment here.
Igor Lukes writes primarily about Central Europe. His publications deal with the interwar period, the Cold War, and contemporary developments in East Central Europe and Russia. His work has won the support of various other institutions, including Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the Woodrow Wilson Center, IREX, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1997 Lukes won the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University.